View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Over 400 Seattle-area would-be entrepreneurs were in attendance today at StartupDay 2010. The day-long event is is designed to help answer some of the questions for first-time entrepreneurs, including how to build your product and build your team. This is the second year for StartupDay, an event organized by Seattle 2.0.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Upcoming Events. Disrupt NY 2013.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

CEO Don Bunnell answered some questions about the Seattle, Wash.-based We believe that by changing the way we build, that we can deliver carbon negative, healthy, beautifully designed homes to people at all income levels?—?at But we always design with these things in mind?—?so based company. What is your competitive advantage?

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The iconic mermaid in the Starbucks logo came from a a mermaid, naturally to honor the coastal Seattle roots. In their own story, the Starbucks says, In a search for a way to capture the seafaring history of coffee and Seattle’s strong seaport roots, there was a lot of poring over old marine books going on. But it did work and how! .

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. million in funding (0) Accelerator application trifecta: TechStars Seattle, Portland Seed Fund, and PIE currently accepting submissions (0) You got your Vizify in my Twitter. UI Designer. Marketing Manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

As Apple design lead Jonathan Ive said , “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”. They can’t rely on existing markets or customer awareness to help generate interest. This means that products in this category need to launch with a robust marketing plan. Cisco, Google in the early days, Yahoo!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Here are the top 10: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal. Prior to COVID, I was and still am the founder and owner of Three Babes Bakeshop, a small bakery business here in San Francisco. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Theres a creative energy to Venice," says James Citron, CEO of Venice-based Mogreet, a mobile entertainment marketing company. "A The search giant recently took over the prominent Binoculars building, designed by famed architect Frank Gehry , in Venice. tech scene who have compiled the list online as RepresentLA.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

For anyone who is thinking of starting a new business, entering a niche market makes a lot of sense. The mainstream markets are typically over-saturated and it’s a lot harder to get noticed or to offer something that isn’t already available. Space exploration. Niche recycling. It now has over 4,500 users.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. Local/state governments. in the mid-1940s — derived from East Coast institutions.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Marketing Intern. How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Bookkeeper.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. I'm the founder and CEO of Celevity. Here's my conversation with Curative. Celine Halioua : Hi, I'm Celine Halioua.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Design & Dev. After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. But what of those eight members of the first Summer Founders Program; Y Combinator’s “First Batch”? Copy-paste link. Next story.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Other factors such as your team, the market you are in, your ability to execute, and in fact other terms in your term sheet are much, much more important to your outcome and financial outcome than is the valuation of your company at the time of financing. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 It was the first internet company to lose money on its first day on the public markets. Marketing materials.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Each day some new story comes out about some creative marketing plan that takes the cake and drives huge traffic to a business. Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Seek customer / market validation early. Posted by: Heather Plude | February 21, 2010 7:19 AM @John Yeng Kevin Rose is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Digg and WeFollow. Rose also co-founded Revision3, and Pownce (acquired by Six Apart). Invest in Advisors. my favorite. My Fav : Dont ask for approval.

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